31 December

It has been a JOYous year

I love you,

Gracie

30 December

sometimes

if I really really Let Go

I can BE Right Here

inside this moment

like that!!!

29 December

I remember this moment

How tiny

Floppy

And wiggly you were

How BIG the tennis ballie

How determined you were

Nice to see you that way again...

For a moment.

28 December

You have always stayed soft

To the touch

&

To the heart

I love that about you

so very much.

27 December

One thing I have loved learning from you:

EnJOYing Whatever

Has turned out to BE 

An entirely NEW-to-me way

To live

Simply.

26 December

you have taught me well

about resting

and taking time for rest

thank you

25 December

It was a special Christmas, 2008

When Santa & the Rain Dear

Brought you a Lake to EnJOY

24 December

Ho Ho Ho

You would

You surely surely would

23 December

I don't know what they are

And likely wouldn't hazard a guess...

I just KNOW you think them.

22 December

Need I say more?!

21 December

one of the few photos of "the two of us"

I canNOT say

WHO

or 

WHICH

of us

is practising patience MORE!!

20 December

oh how magical the ground

[especially that red rock ground]

covered in snow

you REALLY know how to enJOY

whatever the sky sends

19 December

Your loving

[what some might call squishing]

Is great love

All the same...

18 December

your expressions

no matter what I DO

or how I "play" with them

are so YOU

so exquisitely and amazingly YOU...

17 December

Of all the ways

Different or similar

That I have loved...

Loving YOU

Gracie, girl

Is best of ALL!!!

16 December

there is nothing quite like

YOU

when you KNOW

what's in that pocket

and that

if you hold really still

in your question mark doggie-yoga pose...

15 December

little things you DO

[and DID]

teach me far more

than books ever could

14 December

You are inspiration

On four legs

And...

YES!!!

By all means, go again and again and again.

13 December

Your laugh

with all its snorts and woofs

and crazy dancing often involved

well...

just the thought of it gets me 

right in the giggler

12 December

Fluff-head

and

Downright Silly

as YOU are

Your thoughtiness is unmistakeable

and

sort of sweet

11 December

Whatever

in this Whole Wide WORLD

Could I say

but...

I Love You Gracie?!!!?

10 December

This photo has taught me much

BEcause until we moved

You had little to smell

On the desert

Life by the ocean is different

Full

[overly so]

With snifforunities

9 December

Yours?!

Comes in a gazillion

DeLIGHTfully Delicious Flavours

8 December

Unusual

That's a word for you

Though I prefer

Unique

and

Silly

7 December

Little things

Touching

Connecting

Looking

These are your specialty

6 December

Confident

Fearless

Eager

These are mere adjectives

There is no one word for your way of living Life

5 December

I always love to see you like this

Full of silly

Ready for play

Your BEautimous imagination

Giving you wings

4 December

I am NOT the best listener

You have given me new ways to listen

And learn

And you are a gentle, persistent teacher

Thank You.

3 December

I imagine yours is a BEautiful mind.

2 December

oh that BEautimous face...

1 December

I often wonder

Watching you BE

Are you sorting things out

Taking them in

Or are you just

DOing nothing at all brainiac?!